Free Rocket Ship Fine Motor Mat Printables

Rocket ships are a great space theme for kids. And these rocket fine motor mats give you four different printables for a rocket ship to help with fine motor needs.

You have four types of rocket ship fine mats to use. You have rocket ship template printables, a rocket ship tracing printable, a rocket ship q-tip printable, and a rocket ship dot marker printable.

These are great for the summer or a space theme. But also are great for World Space Week in October.

The Rocket Ship Fine Motor Mat Printables is a great addition to the space printables and fine motor mat printables on the site.

The Rocket Ship Fine Motor Mat Printables are part of my subscriber library. You can subscribe to the newsletter and get access to the password there. You will find it in the space section on the subscriber freebie page.

What are Fine Motor Skills?

Fine motor skills involve using the small muscles in your hands and wrists to make precise movements.

This can be tearing paper, playdough, pencil control, or coloring with a crayon.

Rocket Ship Fine Motor Mat Printables

The rocket ship fine motor mats has a rocket ship template, rocket ship tracing printable, rocket ship cotton swab printable, and rocket ship dot marker printable. These are great for space fine motor centers for kids.

Rocket Ship Template Printable

The rocket ship template is just a template of the rocket ship. You have a version with all the lines and a version with just the online of the ship.

You can use this for coloring or template for a craft that kids might a like to do.

Rocket Ship Tracing Printable

The rocket ship tracing printable takes the template and makes it into lines that kids can trace. This makes is great for fine motor control while using a pencil and kids have just loved these pages.

This page is great for pencil control and fine motor skills for writing.

Rocket Ship Cotton Swab Printable

You have the ship full of tiny circles that are perfect for cotton swabs or q-tips. We use the q-tip brand all the time. You can have fun painting this fun ship.

Rocket Ship Dot Marker Printable

Not everyone is ready for the cotton swab version. So you have a rocket ship dot marker version. This is a great for dot marker and other small items to place on the circles.

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Things to use with the Rocket Ship Fine Motor Printables

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• printer
• white copy paper
• colored paper
• colored pencils
• crayons
• dot marker
• markers
• pencil
• pencil grips – We love these!
• sheet protectors
• white cardstock
• dry erase markers
• playdough
• clear counters
• mini dot markers
• paint tray
• washable paints
• q-tip

Ways to Use the Rocket Ship Fine Motor Mats Printables

You are going to see some suggestion for each of the type of rocket ship fine motor mats. You can use these any of these suggestions or think of your own.

Ways to Use the Rocket Ship Template Printable

You will see a few suggestion for the rocket ship template. And remember these are just suggestions.

Coloring the Rocket Ship Template Printable

The rocket ship template is a great coloring page. And you can use crayons, markers, or colored pencils to color the page. And this lets kids be creative while their pick of colors and design.

Older kids could design a logo on the side of the ship.

You could also do a rocket craft after doing the fine motor mats.

Torn Paper Craft With the Rocket Ship Template Printable

We use using these template to make torn paper crafts. So let kids tear up construction paper and decorate their rocket ship! You get fine motor tearing the paper and a fun craft for a space theme.

Ways to Use the Rocket Ship Tracing Printable

You are going to see some suggestion how to use and reuse the rocket ship tracing page.

Use a Pencil Grip to Help with Tracing

I know a lot of times that kids struggle with holding a pencil, but tracing a rocket ship just might be fun for them. If they are struggling use a pencil grip to help hold the pencil while tracing.

Use Markers to Trace Rocket Ship Tracing Printable

You can use markers to trace the ship. You can use different colors for different parts of the ship. You can use markers or fine line markers.

You can see the fine line markers below and how they look tracing the rocket ship.

Reuse the Rocket Ship Tracing Printable

One thing I love about this ship is that you have use it horizontal or vertical. And the tracing page is great to reuse.

You can see below we put the page in a sheet protector and the use dry erase markers to trace the lines. And you can do this over and over.

This is perfect for a fine motor center you want do with several kids.

Ways to Use the Rocket Ship Dot Marker Printable

You will see a few suggestion on how to use the rocket ship dot marker printable.

Use Dot Markers on the Rocket Ship Dot Marker Printable

Okay I just love dot marker and this rocket skip is fun. There is no set color for any of the circles. And that lets kids be creative in how they want to dot the colors on the ship.

We might happen to have loads of dot marker colors and use them often. Let them be creative in how they do. And yes a rocket ship of just one color is fine!

Reuse on the Rocket Ship Dot Marker Printable in a Center

Okay I love that dot marker printable also works great for clear counters and glass gems.

You can see below the rocket ship with glass gems. Super fun and lots of fine motor placing the gems in each of the circles. We happen to have a lot of glass gems in different colors. And that is part of what makes this so much fun.

Ways to Use the Rocket Ship Cotton Swab Printable

You will see a few ways to use the cotton swab rocket ship printable.

Painting with Cotton Swab on the Rocket Ship Cotton Swab Printable

You can use a paint tray, Q-tips (yes my favorite to use is Q-tip) and washable paints and paint the rocket ship. And super fun for kids to do and you can use any mix of colors for the rocket ship.

Use Mini Dot Markers on the Rocket Ship Cotton Swab Printable

One way to use these is with the mini dot markers. They are perfect and fit the size and works on small dot to dot and still work great for fine motor to hit the smaller circle.

And yes we love using these all the time.

What you will find in the Free Rocket Ship Fine Motor Mat Printables

• 2 Rocket Ship Templates
• 1 Rocket Ship Tracing Mats
• 1 Rocket Ship Q-Tip Mat
• 1 Rocket Ship Dot Marker Mats
• 5 pages

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More Space Printables for Kids

Fine Motor Fun With Space Shape Tracing is a nice shape tracing activity with 8 shapes to work on. These are one of my most popular shape printables on the site.

Fine Motor Fun: Planet Prewriting Activity has 6 fun prewriting pages for kids to use. And the prewriting is inside the planet to make it different.

The Rocketing Space Gross Motor Dice will get kids moving in no time with these fun movements. You have 12 movements to check out!

Easy To Make Torn Paper Planets is a simple and easy craft that you make from torn paper that works fine motor skills into the learning.

Fun to Make Washi Tape Moon is a great fine motor craft that kids can do with gray colored washi tape. It is simple and easy to prepare and make.

Check out all the fun Space Printables & Activities on 3 Dinosaurs.

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